Below you will find a series of techniques and strategies, covered in class, but also additional suggestions, to assist you in finding relevant peer reviewed scholarly sources for your assignments.

Additional search strategies/keywords

Use the tool below to refine your searches. Specific suggestions for each topic are listed. Use the navigation arrows to see more details.

Additional search tips

• See also Better Searching Using AND, OR, NOT (video, 2:27)

Finding and identifying peer-reviewed (scholarly) sources

• How can I tell if my source is scholarly?
• How to find scholary books (video, 3:04) - discussed key featues of scholarly books to help determine whether a book is scholarly or not
   
• Finding books
  • Search Omni (library catalogue)
  • Finding books in Omni (video 6:40) 
• Finding articles
  • Omni results also include articles
    • To reduce the number of results, choose a database by subject
  • Finding Articles on a Topic (video 5:58)
• Finding Journal titles
  • Determine if Laurier subcribes to a specific journal title

Citing Sources

• How to cite in APA style (video 4:00)
• Additional APA citation information